Romans 3:20

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So no one can obey the law well enough to be considered right with God. Instead, the law makes us more aware of our sin.

Cross References

Galatians 2:16

But even though we’re used to following the law, we still know that no one can be made right with God that way. Instead, a person needs to believe in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus to be made right with God. We’re not trying to do that by obeying the law, because no one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

Acts 13:39

Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin. Moses’ law cannot make you right in God’s eyes.

Romans 3:28

We firmly believe that a person is shown to be right with God through faith, not by doing the things the law requires.

Galatians 2:19

“Through my experience with the law, I died to the law so that I might live for God.

Romans 4:15

because the law brings God’s anger. But where there is no law, the law can’t be broken.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they tried to do it themselves, instead of relying on faith in God. They tripped over the stone that causes people to trip and fall.

Romans 5:20

When the law was introduced, sin got worse, because now people were doing things that they knew were wrong. But when sin got worse, God poured out an even greater abundance of grace.

Romans 4:13

Abraham and his family received a promise that he would inherit the world, but that wasn’t because he obeyed the law. It was because of his faith, which made him right with God.

Galatians 5:4

Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. As a result, you’ve been separated from Christ and you’ve fallen away from God’s grace.

Romans 5:13

There was sin in the world before the law was given. But before the law, people’s sins weren’t held against them.

Romans 2:13

Hearing the law doesn’t make a person right with God. Obeying the law does.

Romans 7:11

Sin took advantage of the opportunity that the commandment provided, and it tricked me. It used the commandment to put me to death.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Hebrews 7:19

The law didn’t make anything perfect, but a better hope has now been given to us, and it brings us near to God.